[mou] Duluth RBA 6/9/05

[Jim Lind]

This is the Duluth Birding Report for Thursday, June 9th, sponsored 
by the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.

A possible SNOWY EGRET was reported at the Twin Ponds along West 
Skyline Drive in Duluth on June 6th, although it has not been 
reported since.  

A WESTERN KINGBIRD was reported from Stoney Point on June 6th by 
Sandra van den Bosse.

On June 4th an adult white morph ROSS'S GOOSE was reported at 
Interstate Island.  The bird was seen at the left or east end of the 
island when viewing it from the Port Terminal area.  A PACIFIC LOON 
was also reported on the 4th by Janet Riegle and Jim Schnur at Park 
Point on the lakeside, near the Superior Entry.  They also reported 
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONE, and DUNLIN.  At the mouth of 
the Knife River on June 5th, Jan Green also saw small numbers of 
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, RUDDY TURNSTONES, SANDERLINGS, and SEMIPALMATED 
SANDPIPERS.  

A FRANKLIN'S GULL and a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER were found at the 
softball fields on the south side of Ely on June 6th by Richard 
Gibson.

Unusually far south was a male SPRUCE GROUSE reported from Carlton 
County by Nancy Jackson on June 6th along a remote area of the 
Ditchbank Road, one mile east of the Arrowhead Road.  Craig Mandel 
also reported an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER along the West Chubb Lake 
Road in Carlton County.

A late migrant WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was found at Judge Magney State 
Park northeast of Grand Marais on the 5th.

The next scheduled update of this report will be on Thursday, June 
16th.

The telephone number of the Duluth Rare Bird Alert is 218-834-2858. 
Information about bird sightings may be left following the recorded 
message.

The Duluth Birding Report is sponsored and funded by the Minnesota 
Ornithologists' Union (MOU) as a service to its members. For more 
information on the MOU, either write us c/o the Bell Museum to 
mou@cbs.umn.edu, or visit the MOU web site at moumn.org.